Shrub to 1.5 m, with lignotuber. Bark flaking. Stems tomentose. Leaves: petiole 1-3 cm long; lamina flexuose, linear, 20-45 cm long, 8-18 mm wide, pungent; margins flat, dentate with widely spaced pungent lobes; both surfaces tomentose, glabrescent except pits in lower surface. Inflorescence on short lateral branchlet, 4-13 cm long; involucral bracts tomentose. Flowers golden orange to orange-brown including styles. Perianth 34-49 mm long including limb of 5-6 mm, shortly villous outside, glabrous inside. Pistil curved, 33-48 mm long, appressed-pubescent just above ovary, otherwise glabrous; pollen presenter narrowly fusiform, 2-3 mm long, finely ribbed. Old flowers persistent. Follicles up to 30, elliptic, 15-25 mm long, 8-12 mm high, 8-10 mm wide, smooth, villous. Seed obovate, 20-23 mm long; seed body cuneate, 7-10 mm long, 8-19 mm wide, smooth inside, rugose outside.
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